The America East conference on Wednesday named University of Maine women’s soccer player Charlene Achille of Longueuil, Quebec, its 2012 Rookie of the Year. The first-year forward started all 16 regular-season games for the Black Bears, playing 1,426 minutes over the course of the 2012–2013 campaign. Achille tallied seven points on two goals and three […]
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The California-based Foresight Institute, a think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies, has awarded University of Maine professor of physics Raymond Dean Astumian the 2011 Feynman Prize for Theory. Astumian is being honored for his contributions to the understanding of Brownian motion and its role in powering molecular motors and other […]
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On Monday, Oct. 29, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will hold Community Conversation 2.0, his second annual discussion with the UMaine community. The President’s Community Conversation 2.0 will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Wells Conference Center. This year, the President’s Community Conversation is being combined with the annual Employee Breakfast. […]
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A Lewiston Sun Journal feature article about a Jay middle school community gardening project to benefit a local food bank noted that a seventh-grader leading the project learned about gardening methods through University of Maine Cooperative Extension classes. The students donated more than 100 pounds of cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans and carrots from their school […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision Tuesday to uphold the conviction of a South Berwick man sentenced in 2011 to seven years in prison for the hit-and-run death of UMaine student Jordan Bakley the previous year. The Republic in Indiana carried an Associated Press report about the decision. Contact: […]
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WindTECH International has posted on its website a report on a new collaboration with the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the university’s Physical Oceanography Group and NRG Systems Inc., AWS Truepower LLC, and Leosphere SAS to create and deploy laser-based technological equipment off the Maine coast to monitor wind conditions. UMaine […]
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The health and science websites Medical Xpress and Science Codex have posted articles about a University of Maine biological science research team’s discovery that might some day help people with degenerative muscular dystrophies. Clarissa Henry, associate professor of biological sciences, and Ph.D. student Michelle Goody discovered that boosting the activity of a vitamin-sensitive cell adhesion […]
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The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 1 at Buchanan Alumni House. The celebration begins at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Stephen T. Murphy, Ph.D., author of “Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of ‘Feeblemindedness’ in […]
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Rhian Waller, a deep-sea and polar ecologist at the University of Maine who studies deep-sea corals, was featured in a video on the website of the National Geographic Society, which helped fund Waller’s recent research trip to Chile. Waller discussed the phenomenon of deep-water emergence, or areas where animals normally found at deep-sea depths are […]
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University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences associate professor Christopher Gerbi has been selected a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2012 Chinese-American Symposium, which was held Oct. 12–14 in Irvine, Calif., and will serve as an organizer of the 2014 Chinese-American Symposium to be held in […]
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